Balinese spatial reference frames: Linguistic and non-linguistic evidence from the north of Bali
| Autor: | I Nyoman Aryawibawa, Clifton Pye, Ida Bagus Putra Yadnya, I. Gusti Ngurah Parthama |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Linguistic evidence 05 social sciences Object (grammar) 06 humanities and the arts Spatial cognition 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language Indonesian 0602 languages and literature language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Rotation (mathematics) Reference frame |
| Zdroj: | Lingua. 215:40-52 |
| ISSN: | 0024-3841 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lingua.2018.09.005 |
| Popis: | Systems of spatial reference have been explored by many scholars for evidence that language affects human thought. The main purpose of the current study is to describe how Balinese people living in the north side of Bali use their frames of spatial reference, and to look for evidence that language affects human spatial cognition. This study employs both linguistic tasks (e.g., object rotation and asking direction techniques) and non-linguistic tasks (e.g., rearrangement of objects). Fifty-one children and six Balinese monolinguals participated in this study. The results of the current study using object rotation, asking direction, and object rearrangement tasks involving the child subjects showed different results. Specifically, an absolute system of spatial reference is dominantly employed by the child subjects in both the object rotation and object rearrangement tasks. Although not dominantly applied, the use of a relative system was also observed in the two tasks. Interestingly, the later system was dominantly used in the asking direction tasks, which is likely affected by subjects’ knowledge of the Indonesian relative system. The results exhibited by the child subjects show a developmental trend towards the use of the absolute system exhibited by the adult subjects in the three tasks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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